Vapor-burner



(No Model.) W. G. AMOR. Vapor Burner l ril!!! A Patented Sept. 7, 1880.

INVINToR WITNESSES F /Q L 5W 7mm fw UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

WILLIAM Gr. AMOR, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

AVAPOR-Bumsen.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,887, datedSeptember 7, 1880.

Application filed July 3, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Cr. AMOR, of Cleveland, in th e county ofCuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vapor-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it,reference being h ad to the accompanyin gdrawin g, which forms part ofthis specification.

My invention relates to vapor-burners. It consists in certain details ofconstruction and combination of parts, as will hereinafter be described,and pointed out in the claims.

' The drawing accompanying this specification illustrates, inlongitudinal vertical section, a burner constructed according to myinvention.

A is the enlarged bell or crown, made of castiron, perforated, andresting loosely upon its seat C.

The burning-chamber A need not be of the exact or equivalent shape shownin the drawing. Its shape and its method of perforation may beimlenitely'varied, as in this particular feature my invention does notconsist.

C is the seat of the burner A, and is a disk, through the center ofwhich passes the short tube B. centrall y placed within the disk C, andserving as a guide and director to the vapor from the valve E beneath itto the chamber A, within which it terminates.

Supporting the chamber A, disk C, and tube B are one, two, or moretubes, D. These tubes, at their lower ends, pass through and are supported by the plate E. This plate E has a central perforation controlledby a valve, E, and itis screwed or otherwise fixed upon the upper end ofthe tube G, through the'length of' which tube passes the stem of thevalve E. Fixed upon the tube G, and located just below the plate E', isthe cup F. It will be observed that a partiallyclosed chamber is formedbetween the lower surface of the plate E and the upper surface of thecup F, and that the tubes D communicate between 'this partially-closedchamber and the chamber of the bell or crown A.

H is a plumbers Tjoint. This, of course, is not au essential part of thedevice. A single feedpipe supplies severalburners, the ends (N o model.)

of said feed-pipe screwing into the horizontal portion of the joint H.

E2 is a handle fixed upon the end of the stem of th e valve E, whichpasses dow nward th rough the joint H, having a screw-thread out uponits lower end, as shown, and feeding with a female screw eut in thejoint H.

K is any suitable stufiin g-boX for preventing the escape ofburning-fluid at the joint to which it is applied. i

The operation of my device will be readily 4this is done the valve E isagain opened, and

now nothing but vapor will escape through the central perforation of theplate E'. This vapor passesup ward through the tube B, where it iscommingled with the air which ismixed within the chamber A, and,escaping through the perforations of said chamber A, is burned. Aportion, however, of this vapor, instead of escaping through theperforations of the bell or crown A, passes downward through the tubes Dand is burned beneath the plate E', thus keeping said plate E always hotenough to vaporize the fluid passing to it.

One feature peculiar to my invention will be readily recognized, andthat is that the amount of the vaporizing-ame at the lower end of thetubes D will always be proportioned to the amount of vapor to beconsumed and to the amount of iuid to be vaporizediuasmu'ch as theamount of vapor passing down through the tubes D must depend upon theamount escaping past the valve E.

It will be observed that my entire burner is governed by a single valveinstead of two valves, as is customary, one for controlling the feedofthe burning-fluid and another for controlling the escape of vapor.

l. In a vapor-burner, the combination, with the drip-cup F andheater-plate E', of the burn- IOS ing-chamberAand one or more tubes, D,eonund proy'ided with downwardly-Haring outer neet-ing theburilingehumber und heater-plato portion, ofthe burning-chamber A andone or E', substantially as set forth. more tubes, D, substantially asset forth.

2. In :t vapor-burner, the combination, with 1n testimony whereof I havesigned my name 5 the drip-cup F and heater-plate E', of one or to thisspecification in the presence of two sub- 15 more tubes, D, short tubeB, and huruingsorihing witnesses.

chamber A, substantially its set forth. VILLIAM G. AMOR.

3. In :t vapor-burner, the combination, with Witnesses: tube G, drip-cupF, and heater-plate E', the JNO. UROWELL, Jr.,

1o latter screwed upon the upper end of tube G A. W. BRIGHT.

